Test Manager - Online Gaming atLeading Online Gaming Company

Test management and strategy, Agile development methodologies, Working closely with enginering teams

Secondary skills

Leading and mentoring teams of QA Engineers, Automation testing and planning, QA Manager

Benefits

£65k - £70k per annum + bonus, Pension, benefits

Job description

Our client, a well-respected and leading Online Gaming company is seeking a highly motivated Corporate Manager to join their team of skilled professionals. Attitude is just as important as experience with a set of tools. There are a lot of moving pieces to fit together. They are looking for colleagues with great communication and interpersonal skills, who can communicate easily with other people who have various levels of technical expertise.

A leading Online Gaming company based in the city of London are looking for an experienced Test Manager to join their talented, growing engineering team, leading a cross-functional team of 12 Test and QA Engineers.

The Test Manager will be an expert with test strategies and tools and will be responsible for defining the test strategy for some of the companies most high-profile gaming streams. You will be working closely with the Group CTO and various Engineering Managers, so will need to be able to manage stakeholders and speak to the business at a high level.

As a QA Manager, you will be experienced with:

Test management and strategy

Agile development methodologies

Working closely with enginering teams

Leading and mentoring teams of QA Engineers

Automation testing and planning, ideally from a hands-on background recently

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced QA Manager to join an extremely well-known and highly regarded Online Gaming organisation and the height of the industry, whilst also being able to put your own stamp on the team and build with the engineers that you have personally recruited.

This will be a very pivotal role in the company, with complete ownership and delivery of the QA strategy for this very large business area. As well as being extremely strong technically, you must be a passionate leader and be able to operate at board level within this excellent company who are looking to grow by 100 engineers in the next 2 years.

This role is paying £65-75K + bonus + benefits for very strong candidates.

You will be sitting within their cash equities function, specifically working within the High Touch team and be responsible for the support of their 5 main trading platforms. The chosen candidate will be working within a very fast paced environment and be required to respond instantaneously to any IT issues. There will also be the opportunity to work on a brand new Cash Architecture that is state of the art and streamlined to minimize the number of applications needed.

The ideal candidate will therefore have strong knowledge of Cash Equities (or similar industry environment) and technical knowledge of Unix and SQL. Scripting ability would be beneficial but is not essential. Overall, this person will have a track record of providing hands on Application Support within a financial services environment.

Experience & Skills required:

· Strong experience of working in an IT support team

· Experience of hands on Application Support within a Front Office trading environment

· Knowledge of Unix and SQL

· Knowledge of Cash Equities is beneficial

· Excellent communication skills

· Strong client facing skills

· Ability to take a mentoring role within the team for Junior Analysts

This is a great opportunity to develop specialist knowledge in cash equity trading systems within a world leading investment bank that has led previous candidates into leading positions including directly into trading roles.

My client a world-leading provider of information solutions is currently looking for an Agile Process Manager to join their team on a 3 month contract. The Agile Process Manager will be working as a part of the delivery teams, coaching and developing the agile practices and culture.

Key Tasks and Deliverables of the Agile Coach

Facilitating delivery in a hands-on role including, but not limited to:

Measure and track throughput and lead time for work items through complex value chains involving multiple teams

Actively manage the teams' delivery by creating and analysing data - eg lead time, burn-ups

Use data to forecast delivery schedules and support negotiations around prioritisation and staffing

Facilitate planning meetings and retrospectives

Work with the Product Managers & delivery teams to estimate backlog items and ensure optimal flow through the delivery process

Delve into detail to help teams overcome technical problems

Creating a continuous improvement environment

Work at both a team level and a department level to increase delivery maturity.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Build collaborative, professional, and successful relationships with product and delivery teams and the wider business

Provide visibility into the status and progress of work.

Manage dependencies between teams. Co-ordinate and synchronise dependent work items across disciplines and teams

Referral Scheme: If this role isn't for you then perhaps you could recommend a friend or colleague to Haybrook IT. If we go on to place that person in a permanent or temporary capacity then you could be rewarded with £500! Please see our website for terms and conditions.

Day to Day TaskResponsible for supporting the application aspects of multiple live services Management of live incidents Investigation of incidents and provision of resolutions. Interaction/interface with Solutions Delivery (project handover, Clone testing, etc.) Involvement in live incidents escalated via other support teams. Co-ordination with New Projects to gain an understanding of Live Support Requirements Provision of Out Of Hours (On Call) cover on a rota basis Collection of adhoc statistics Housekeeping on Live Services and Databases Creation & maintenance of support documentation (LSMs, etc.) Attend Live support and customer meetings Enhancement suggestions through Change Proposals/CIPs and Trouble Tickets Technical Advice/Support to other areas inc. the customer Prior Migration Knowledge (Currently migrating from SAS 9.1.3 to SAS 9.4). Involved in the development of new products.

Business SkillsClient Facing, Good Negotiation skills, well organized and proactive, Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels, with a positive 'can do'attitude. Mentoring & Coaching Junior members of the team. Base location is Newcastle but may have to travel to London and Telford for meetings.

The IT Development Manager will lead delivery of Web and Access stream development projects and programmes required to support the business in achieving its goals, strategies and opportunities in a fast paced environment. They should ensure that expectations are managed across the business and that the team deliver results efficiently and effectively, in line with business scope and timescales.

Our client are a well-established brand (1971) and on a global scale, dominate the market space in which they operate.

Their product is Real Time dealing technology platforms which are designed and created using the latest Microsoft toolsets and with solid Azure and AWS skills you will be a proven Test Manager with a solid handle on technology and the ability to manage an offshore QA/Test function.

Your stakeholder communication skills will be impeccable and you will be the ambassador for all things Test and QA across the technology function of the business.

The IT Operations Manager will reporting directly to the Managing Director & will be responsible for the full running and development of the engineering function of the business. Sitting in the Senior Management Team this is a key role in the strategy, reporting and efficiency of the IT Operations department as well as having an involvement in the wider business performance and growth plans.

The IT Operations Manager will be responsible for; * Continuous review and update of organisations Service Catalogue.* Working closely with Procurement Department to identify and negotiate with suppliers as required to ensure the company is at the leading edge of services and product offerings* Commercial recommendations to Board level for price points and packages in line with industry trends maintaining the organisations market position* Continuous development and review of in-house technologies to support customers and staff as expected of a leading edge technology business* Direct Line Management of the Service Desk Manager; Solutions & Services Manager* Mentor and coaching of Service Desk Manager to develop and maintain excellence within the support team of 1st to 3rd line engineers* Provide 3rd line/major incident support to the Service Desk as required* Be a 'go to' person for all technical advice and sense checking with regards to proposals and customer solution recommendations* Weekly department performance reporting to the Management team including ticket and incident review and individual efficiency* Monthly department overview reporting at Board level

Our in-house experts assist with the wide range of legal and ethical problems that arise from professional practice. This can include clinical negligence claims, complaints, medical and dental council inquiries, legal and ethical dilemmas, disciplinary procedures, inquests and fatal accident inquiries.

Agile driven Test manager with passion for automation and strong team leadership is required by a market leading ISV based in the North West. A company who has been disrupting the market space and has become an award-winning organisation.

This Test Manager role plays a pivotal in the R&D team. As such, you will be taking complete ownership on the design, development and implementation for everything QA and test automation. Being the Test Manager, you must be comfortable mentoring the other QA's in the team, provide technical leadership and able to discuss strategic direction with department heads and members of the board. Effectively you will be mapping and shaping the test strategy to enable continuous integration and deployment.

You will be responsible for architecting, creating and managing test frameworks that are used across the business. Ensuring that all the automated tests are performed to the highest standard. This is including but not limited to End to End, Integration, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Performance, Load, Soak, Mobile, Compatibility, Interrupt testing.

strong A a have knowledge of Selenium WebDriver or other relevant frameworks/tools and dev languages such as .NET or Java. The R&D division goodThis role requires agile

practice and are driven by SOLID development principles and a DevOps ethos.

The business continues to grow at a rate faster than expected, which I am sure is related to the fact the board are huge advocates of investing in the business and the best people in the market. Salaries are highly competitive and you also get an invested interest in both the business and your ongoing career development.